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Trupanion nabs $9M, looks to expand pet insurance pawprint

People love their pets, but anyone who has taken their beloved Fido or Felix to the veterinarian lately knows that… Read More

Memory Lane, formerly Classmates.com, cuts staff

Memory Lane, the Seattle social networking site formerly known as Classmates.com, has cut an unknown number of jobs at its… Read More

RescueTime raises cash to help disorganized geeks track how they spend time online

RescueTime has pulled in an additional $250,000 in financing from existing investor True Ventures, money that the profitable Seattle startup… Read More

Apple slapped with patent suit by Seattle maker of mobile caller ID products

Cequint, the maker of caller ID products for mobile phones, has sued Apple for patent infringement. The Seattle company, which… Read More

As mobile payments spread, Avalara uses geolocation data to pinpoint tax boundaries

At a holiday gift sale I attended last weekend, a few of the vendors were using the new mobile payment… Read More

Health startup WellnessFX lands cash, targets Pacific NW launch

One of the hottest things going in startup world right now is the integration of technology with health and wellness… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Valant Medical scores cash to help psychiatrists manage practices

Valant Medical Solutions, which has developed software to help psychiatrists manage billing and electronic medical records at their practices, has… Read More

MicroRNA startup Groove Biopharma scores $6 million

It’s been a bit slow in Seattle venture capital circles in the past few months. But some of the region’s… Read More

Doctors and lawyers get gamified on Avvo, but will they play along?

It’s the hottest thing on Foursquare and FarmVille. Now, Avvo — the online Q&A site for medical and legal advice… Read More

Redfin CTO Michael Young departs

Redfin’s top technologist is saying goodbye to the online real estate brokerage after five years on the job. Chief Technology… Read More

Startup Spotlight: CrowdControl looks to manage ‘big data’

Tweets. Blog comments. Facebook likes. There’s no shortage of information flowing these days. CrowdControl wants to help businesses qualify this… Read More

Google+ Handbook: 63 resources for entrepreneurs

Just when you thought you had Facebook and Twitter nailed, along comes Google+. This new social site took the world… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Road trip leads to disaster recovery startup Doyenz

You’ve got a lot of time to think when traveling by RV from South Carolina to Washington state — a… Read More

Zipline releases WolfToss on iOS, Android and Chrome

The significance of WolfToss isn’t necessarily the game itself — though Zipline Games co-founder Todd Hooper admits that he spent… Read More

Gaming vet Jordan Weisman unveils educational mobile app for 2-5 year-old kids

Early in his career, Seattle video game designer Jordan Weisman developed titles such as BattleTech and MechWarrior. But his latest… Read More

Ignition backs San Francisco cloud application service Iron.io

Ignition Partners continues to pump dollars into cloud computing startups — most of them which happen to be based in… Read More

Yapta CEO Tom Romary departs for new job in Silicon Valley

Yapta chief executive Tom Romary is leaving the online travel company that he co-founded in 2006 to take a new… Read More

Reed Hastings, John Doerr and others invest $11 million in DreamBox Learning

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and venture capitalist John Doerr are among the backers pumping $11 million into DreamBox Learning, the… Read More

Newsmakers 2011: Neil Roseman helps bring Zynga to Seattle

One of the biggest stories in Seattle tech in 2011 was the arrival of the Silicon Valley tech titans. It… Read More

Tango Card rings up $1 million, partners with Bing

Tango Card, the Seattle gift card operator, has raised an additional $1 million in equity and debt financing led by… Read More

Newly-formed W Fund includes heavy hitters from Seattle venture capital

University of Washington vice provost of commercialization Linden Rhoads wants the state’s largest research institutions to spin-out more innovative technologies,… Read More

Newsmakers 2011: Mariachi and margaritas mark wild year for Double Down’s Walcott, Enell

Executives at Double Down Interactive hired a mariachi band to entertain staffers at a company meeting in September — a special… Read More

EquaShip raises $600,000, looks to accelerate shipping business

Just two months after its launch, Seattle startup EquaShip has raised an additional $600,000 in cash. Led by entrepreneur Ron… Read More

Daily deal site Zulily to add up to 600 jobs in central Ohio

Zulily, the fast-growing Seattle daily deals site, is planning to establish a new distribution and fulfillment center in central Ohio… Read More

Newsmakers 2011: Smilebox CEO Andrew Wright builds big business on life’s little moments

It’s that time of year when folks start thinking about connecting with family and friends through holiday cards. And Smilebox… Read More

Washington state pumps $5 million into new W Fund to bankroll university spin-outs

Just last week, we picked up on a new report which showed that The University of Utah, MIT, Purdue, Johns Hopkins… Read More

Livemocha takes a crack at Rosetta Stone in retail

Livemocha CEO Michael Schutzler hasn’t been shy about taking some shots at rival Rosetta Stone over the years. Last year,… Read More

GlobalScape buys file sharing startup TappIn for up to $17 million

In the past few months, file sharing and cloud storage startups Box and Dropbox have raised massive amounts of cash… Read More

Swashbuckling Glenn Kelman says he was ‘unprepared’ for the Redfin job

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman has never been afraid to speak his mind. But sometimes his statements get him in hot… Read More

Can ebooks fuel innovation? Startups explore the potential

A group of startups met up this week in Redmond for the first Ebook Innovation Summit, a small gathering of… Read More

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